Comments on: Real(i)ty http://electrolicious.com/2004/07/reality Daily affirmations of a word mercenary Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:02:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: nanirolls http://electrolicious.com/2004/07/reality#comment-4500 nanirolls Sun, 04 Jul 2004 20:56:17 +0000 #comment-4500 Thanks for the link. I just finished an economic revitalization analysis for a senator here in Brooklyn so similar projects in other cities are always interesting for me to read! Thanks for the link. I just finished an economic revitalization analysis for a senator here in Brooklyn so similar projects in other cities are always interesting for me to read!

]]> By: Ariel http://electrolicious.com/2004/07/reality#comment-4499 Ariel Sat, 03 Jul 2004 17:40:07 +0000 #comment-4499 Bremerton is a small working class city a 60 minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle. It's home to a Navy shipyard, and in the late-'80s the town was economically destroyed by a mall built 15 miles away. For a while, downtown Bremerton had a commercial space vacancy rate of something like 80%. When I was growing up on Bainbridge, Bremerton was known for being full of navy boys and hicks, girls with big hair, and guys with gun racks on their trucks. These days I think it's better known for meth labs. For a lot of these reasons, housing their is very very inexpensive. Supposedly the city is undergoing some <a href="http://www.ci.bremerton.wa.us/display.php?id=296">economic rehabilitation</a>, but it's at the beginning stages of that recovery — definitely NOT a thriving community just yet. Which of course is why buying property there would be smart...and why living their would be hard. <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001808916_matt07.html">Here's some more info</a>, iff'n you're really interested. Bremerton is a small working class city a 60 minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle. It’s home to a Navy shipyard, and in the late-’80s the town was economically destroyed by a mall built 15 miles away. For a while, downtown Bremerton had a commercial space vacancy rate of something like 80%. When I was growing up on Bainbridge, Bremerton was known for being full of navy boys and hicks, girls with big hair, and guys with gun racks on their trucks. These days I think it’s better known for meth labs.

For a lot of these reasons, housing their is very very inexpensive. Supposedly the city is undergoing some economic rehabilitation, but it’s at the beginning stages of that recovery — definitely NOT a thriving community just yet. Which of course is why buying property there would be smart…and why living their would be hard. Here’s some more info, iff’n you’re really interested.

]]> By: nanirolls http://electrolicious.com/2004/07/reality#comment-4498 nanirolls Sat, 03 Jul 2004 07:45:54 +0000 #comment-4498 For those of us not from the Washington/Seattle area, clue us in on Bremerton. What makes it un-ideal? For those of us not from the Washington/Seattle area, clue us in on Bremerton. What makes it un-ideal?

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